Damn kids!

[Yooper]

What's the matter with kids today?!?

They seem to be stupid and lazy.

When I was a kid, we didn't have good technology or the internet so we didn't have a way to make fancy fake IDs. We had to work hard and be sneaky to pay a bum at the gas station to buy us liquor and beer. And we had to walk uphill to get there- both ways!

And we didn't have the internet to find out about making our own beer and mead. We had to learn it the hard way, by trial and error.

And in my day, we would have been smart enough to lie about our age and say we were 21 and pick the "correct" birthdate if we would have been lucky enough to have a forum like this.

Stupid kids!

 

[glenn514]

You been drinkin' too much of your homebrew, Yooper!

glenn514

 

[FastAndy]

And pull your damn pants up! Slow down this is a neighborhood. And get off my lawn! Seriously though i do agree with you though.

 

[Revvy]

Aw, geez you mean I missed out on the fun?

 

[Yooper]

Oh, yeah, and MY generation could subtract 21 from 2011 and give you the right answer!!!! And we didn't even have calculators invented yet.

 

[FastAndy]

Oh, yeah, and MY generation could subtract 21 from 2011 and give you the right answer!!!! And we didn't even have calculators invented yet.

Did you have an abacus as a kid Yoop?

 

[BrewersKaramazov]

Oh, yeah, and MY generation could subtract 21 from 2011 and give you the right answer!!!! And we didn't even have calculators invented yet.

Wait, that involves complex mathematical procedures.

 

[BrewersKaramazov]

Did you ask him his birthdate?

 

[Jaysus]

 

[Yooper]

Did you have an abacus as a kid Yoop?

No, they weren't invented until I was in college.

Damn it we used our fingers and toes just like every body else!!!!!!

 

[Yooper]

Oh, yeah, and we were smart enough to know if "dougcross" (an example) got picked up by a moderator and banned, coming back as "dougcross2" thirty seconds later might not fly under the radar.

Two of them in the last 15 minutes did just that! Unbelievable.

 

[cheezydemon3]

"I am a teenage homebrewer......"

That almost makes that thread epic.

 

[SenorPepe]

lol those two were great. I thoroughly enjoyed watching you lay the smack down. Especially now that it's seasoned with some lovably curmudgeonly get off my lawn talk.

 

[Yooper]

lol those two were great. I thoroughly enjoyed watching you lay the smack down. Especially now that it's seasoned with some lovably curmudgeonly get off my lawn talk.

You want to hear something funny? We rarely go out for a few beers, because we live in a small non-beer town so we get better beer at home. But we went to my brewbuddy's house Saturday night (lschiavo), about 15 miles away.

My daughter agreed to pick us up if we drank too much, as her son was with his dad and she didn't have any plans that night. We were ok, so Bob drove home (even though lschiavo's rye pale ale is awesome, for the record). Anyway, my daughter called yesterday. She wanted to make sure we got home ok.

I was so touched! I said we were fine, and got home around 8 PM or so since we went early in the day. She said something like, "Thank God. I went out myself and had a few so I asked my girlfriend if she could stay sort of sober in case you guys needed a DD".

I really just laughed. Who else by MY kid would abdicate her DD duties?!?!

But you bet your ass she'd better GET OFF MY LAWN!

 

[BrewersKaramazov]

My pain is self-chosen At least, so The Prophet says. I could either burn Or cut off my pride and buy some time. A head full of lies is the weight, tied to my waist.
The River of Deceit pulls down, oh oh. The only direction we flow is down Down, oh down Down, oh down Down, oh down

Wow, I just took a minute to listen to this. Great lyric.

 

[Yooper]

Wow, I just took a minute to listen to this. Great lyric.

Oh, Mad Season was such a great combo, wasn't it?!? But that song is in one of my "top 10 songs of all time" along with "Imagine" by Lennon. Layne Staley was such a unique poet and songwriter that no one can replace him.

 

[TyTanium]

Who needs cable when you have HBT. Great quality entertainment. Dougcross2 - brilliant.

 

[cheezydemon3]

"My name Under The Sink originates from the fact im doing all my brewing under my sink to hide it from my parents! I am just trying to make some quality mead that I can share at my local home brew store for others to judge. I call all my brews a sexualy related name to make it funny and unique"

too bad...... a teenager with creative sexual names for his mead.....he could have been a real asset here.......

The posts were deleted, but he can live on in quotes.

 

[edmanster]

What's the matter with kids today?!?

You just got the"kids" song from "bye bye birdie" stuck in my head

 

[CreamyGoodness]

He's probably grumbling about the old fuds who got all butthurt when he told them off. Seriously... F old people man. I'm going to kill myself on my 30th birthday.

 

[KayaBrew]

Yooper, you seem sort of grumpy today. What gives? Bob drink all your IPA again?

 

[the_bird]

No, they weren't invented until I was in college.

Damn it we used our fingers and toes just like every body else!!!!!!

There's your problem; you can't count to 21!

 

[BrewersKaramazov]

When you have more candles than fingers/toes, you can start drinking

 

[Yooper]

Yooper, you seem sort of grumpy today. What gives? Bob drink all your IPA again?

Well, as a matter of fact...........................most of it! But I have my own personal growler with me at the moment, sitting by a roaring fire at our cottage after a dinner of venison stew. Life is great.


Except for those damn kids!

 

[bluemoose]

I was so touched! I said we were fine, and got home around 8 PM or so since we went early in the day.

So did you go after the early bird special at the local diner?

 

[SwampassJ]

There's your problem; you can't count to 21!

Why men are better at math, we have more "digits".

 

[Trail]

So did you go after the early bird special at the local diner?

I'd kill to be eating at my local diner right now. They make the most amazing grilled cheese sandwiches you've ever had.

True fact: I drunkenly typoed, erased, and RETYPED it as "sandwichers" three times.

 

[Yooper]

So did you go after the early bird special at the local diner?

We have a joke that if we were to open a new business it would be a bar/restaurant called "LIGHTS OUT". Bob is seriously "lights out" by 10 PM, often earlier. In our imaginary business, we'd have an "early bird special" at 3 pm, dinner at 4 PM, the band at 6 PM and everybody out the door by 9 PM. You know, 9 PM- LIGHTS OUT!

BUT we did go over to lschiavo's at 3 PM and commenced drinking homebrews. I was happily shined up by about 5 PM, and we had dinner 7ish. And since he smoked two pork butts and a venison neck and we had lots of homebrew and homemade wine, the time went by quickly. We made it home in plenty of time for LIGHTS OUT.

 

[unionrdr]

I loled when I turned 50 & got a card with Opus & Bill on it that said; is it your birthday...flip open...or are you trying to signal an alien civilization in another galaxy?". That was a few years ago. We have kids the age of many of you. Damn friggin kids! Lazy & disrespectful too. Thank God that's not the case all the time. Why do you think some of us older folks are DC? (Downright Cantankerous)

 

[CreamyGoodness]

Hey doc, Im in my early thirties and Ive been called a Gumpy Old Man since I was 19... lol... old age is a state of mind. And mine is old...